> even that response to DHH

Can you link to what you're referring?

I like "ncdu", a TUI equivalent for Unixy systems.

Although I learned the hard way that if you run it on a Mac home folder, and have iCloud's "optimize Mac storage" turned on, macOS will suddenly try to download literally everything in your iCloud storage to try to count the size of it, probably filling your disk. Oops.

Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software.

It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.

Do you happen to know what book/story?

Long ago, perhaps ten or more years, I used IntelliJ. It is a good IDE. Then last year I tried CLion with the Rust plugin. Still good. Not everything is smooth but that's not their fault. One example: it is frustrating to display values even if they implement Debug. The problem is that the debugger did not yet understand Rust's Debug. I was satisfied anyway.

After a year I didn't extend the license, however.

You see, I am mostly retired and program just for fun. And CLion does not do enough because I also write TypeScript, PHP, shell scripts, and even C sometimes. CLion is good for C, but now, I don't know if RustRover will cover C.

Now I switched to helix. Thirty years ago I learnt Emacs and later jed. You could say I am the pinky finger guy. In my fifties I decided to try something completely different, a modal editor. It took more than a year to slowly learn tricks. If programming were my job I wouldn't do that. I would stick to vscode or just Visual Studio or to a JetBrains product, because I know them and can work efficiently. With helix I did not yet reach this efficiency. But being retired it is more about fun instead of efficiency. helix is just more fun than these corporate offerings. Last week I switched Caps Lock and Esc and even created tap keybindings for the modifier keys (right tap-iso = open bracket, right tap-meta = close bracket for example). I am still in the process to adapt to the new keybindings but it makes me smile.

One caveat: when in a browser text input field, I sometimes hit the i key before typing. Anyone know this? I realized, I have to shift the mental model that browser text input fields are alreay and permanently in insert mode.

This said, I have a fond spot for JetBrains even if I left them.

The link between compression and intelligence is a popular theory. Indeed the linked work here came out of the Hutter Prize:

> The goal of the Hutter Prize is to encourage research in artificial intelligence (AI). The organizers believe that text compression and AI are equivalent problems. Hutter proved that the optimal behavior of a goal-seeking agent in an unknown but computable environment is to guess at each step that the environment is probably controlled by one of the shortest programs consistent with all interaction so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

Such a pity no one else can compete here presently. Would that others be able to gain a position where their software made them competitive on the free market.

Wow, this part makes my blood boil, emphasis mine:

> This issue doesn't affect tapes written with the ADR-50 drive, but all the tapes I have tested written with the OnStream SC-50 do NOT restore from tape unless the PC which wrote the tape is the PC which restores the tape. This is because the PC which writes the tape stores a catalog of tape information such as tape file listing locally, which the ARCserve is supposed to be able to restore without the catalog because it's something which only the PC which wrote the backup has, defeating the purpose of a backup.

Holy crap. A tape backup solution that doesn't allow the tape to be read by any other PC? That's madness.

Companies do shitty things and programmers write bad code, but this one really takes the prize. I can only imagine someone inexperienced wrote the code, nobody ever did code review, and then the company only ever tested reading tapes from the same computer that wrote them, because it never occured to them to do otherwise?

But yikes.

I was like this a week ago. Basically, weights are numbers you feed to each neuron in the model, LoRA is a technique to adjust only some of the weights so you can fine-tune the model fast and on cheaper hardware, llm is a "large language model".

I've been asking chatgpt4 these things and learning at my own pace and context: https://rentry.co/vafkn

Easylist should serve the Indian browser (based on user-agent) with a giant file (expensive), a corrupt file, or some response which causes the app the crash. If the browser crashes on every startup due to a malicious response from the Easylist server, users will likely delete it.